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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6777/">Quotes by <em>Smiles, Samuel</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Samuel Smiles (December 23, 1812 April 16, 1904), was a Scottish author and reformer. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."

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"The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

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"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve."

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"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."

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"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."

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"It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."

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"We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."

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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

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